Wonderland Or Twelve Weeks in And Out of the United States Brief Account of
Wonderland Or Twelve Weeks in And Out of the United States Brief Account of
Edward S Parkinson
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We were jerked about for a considerable time, but the engine was unable to pull the train, and a brakeman was sent back nine miles to the first station to telegraph for an- other engine. We tried to sleep, but the engine kept up a continual puffing and snorting until finally it was decided to send our disabled engine ahead with the baggage-cars and leave the pas- YOSEMITE VALLEY. 109 sengers to be brought along by the extra, which would arrive some time later. We then dozed off and slept until ...the gray streaks of dawn had made their appearance above the mountains. Going out on the platform, it was ascertained that we were in one of those valleys of southern California where not a tree of any sort can be seen except around the homes of the farmers who have brought them from some nursery and kept them alive by irrigation. Not far from the railroad was a large irrigating ditch which sup- plied the adjacent ranches. The water was brought from some reservoir up in the moun- tains, where the melting snow was stored and then distributed by the canals to the ranches along its course.
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